Re: [Web-SIG] Python pickle and web security.

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 18, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Python wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:24 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Sep 18, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Python wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:27 -0700, Ben Bangert wrote: Why do you assume the session store is untrusted? If someone can hack into

Re: [Web-SIG] Python pickle and web security.

2006-09-18 Thread Python
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 14:24 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote: > On Sep 18, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Python wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:27 -0700, Ben Bangert wrote: > >> Why do you assume the session store is untrusted? If someone can hack > >> into my database, they can typically hack into my web applic

Re: [Web-SIG] Python pickle and web security.

2006-09-18 Thread Jim Fulton
On Sep 18, 2006, at 2:16 PM, Python wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:27 -0700, Ben Bangert wrote: >> Why do you assume the session store is untrusted? If someone can hack >> into my database, they can typically hack into my web application so >> its pretty weird to consider the backend session s

Re: [Web-SIG] Python pickle and web security.

2006-09-18 Thread Python
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 10:27 -0700, Ben Bangert wrote: > Why do you assume the session store is untrusted? If someone can hack > into my database, they can typically hack into my web application so > its pretty weird to consider the backend session store to be > "untrusted". You are assuming tha

Re: [Web-SIG] Python pickle and web security.

2006-09-18 Thread Ben Bangert
On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:23 PM, René Dudfield wrote: > That seems like a good way to stop the untrusted session store from > being able to inject sessions in there. That could at least solve the > problem of using pickles from untrusted session stores. > > Are you just using the basic python types?